Digital Transformation Programme Contracts in the North West

Digital Transformation Programmes/Projects
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Digital Transformation Programme skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Transformation Programme over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 106 137
Rank change year-on-year -7 +31 +2
Contract jobs citing Digital Transformation Programme 7 31 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 1.13% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 1.30% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 24 15
10th Percentile £405 £268 £364
25th Percentile £451 £292 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% +12.00%
75th Percentile £563 £619 £566
90th Percentile £688 £646 £588
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £30.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £34.78
% change year-on-year -47.83% +65.35% -0.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Digital Transformation Programme falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Digital Transformation Programme
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Digital Transformation Programme as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Transformation Programme in the North West

Digital Transformation Programme
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Transformation Programme in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Digital Transformation Programme in the North West

Digital Transformation Programme
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Transformation Programme in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Transformation Programme in the North West

Digital Transformation Programme
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Transformation Programme in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Transformation Programme in the North West

Digital Transformation Programme
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Transformation Programme within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -9 5 £538 +13.16% 18
Lancashire - 1 £375 - 11
Merseyside - 1 £475 - 1
Digital Transformation Programme
England

Digital Transformation Programme
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) CMS
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
1 1 (14.29%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (14.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
2 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Legal
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Backend Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Chief Technology Officer
1 1 (14.29%) Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Head of Business Change
1 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Lead
1 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
1 1 (14.29%) JPA
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) User Stories
4 1 (14.29%) Budget Management
4 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Objectives and Key Results
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Product Requirements
4 1 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Debt
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Citrix
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Sitecore
1 1 (14.29%) VMware